light-house

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LI'GHT-HOUSE, noun A pharos; a tower or building erected on a rock or point of land, or on an isle in the sea, with a light or number of lamps on the top, intended to direct seamen in navigating ships at night.
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